GORDON GRAY was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 30 May 1909; graduated from
the University of North Carolina, 1930; received a degree from the Yale Law
School, 1933; was admitted to the New York bar and entered into practice there,
19331935; was admitted to the North Carolina bar and practiced there, 19351937;
was president of the Piedmont Publishing Company, publishers of the Winston-Salem
Journal and the Twin City Sentinel and operator of radio station
WSJS, 19371947; married Jane Boyden Craige, 1938 (deceased 1953); served in
the state senate, 19391942; entered military service as a private, 1942, was
commissioned in Infantry, 1943, served overseas with Headquarters, Twelfth Army
Group, 19441945, and emerged as a captain; was again a state senator, 19451947;
served as Assistant Secretary of the Army, 24 September 194727 April 1949,
and as Under Secretary of the Army, 25 May19 June 1949; served as Secretary
of the Army, 20 June 194912 April 1950; supervised the phaseout of Selective
Service inductees and terminated the Armys military government operation in
Germany, 19491950; was a special assistant to the President on foreign economic
policy, 1950; served as president of the University of North Carolina, 19501955;
was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 19551957;
married Nancy McGuire Beebe, 1956; was director of the Office of Defense Mobilization,
19571958; was special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs,
19581961; was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1961; was a member
of the Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 19611977, and chairman
of the board of Triangle Broadcasting Company, 19691975; was chairman of the
board of Summit Communications, Inc.; died in Washington, D.C., on 26 November
1982.

The Artist

Adrian Lamb (1901 ) studied at the Art Students League in New York and
the Académie Julien in Paris. He lives in Connecticut and has a studio
in New York City where he paints prominent Americans of the past and present.
Gardner Cox (1906 ) studied at the Art Students League and at Harvard
University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He lives in Cambridge and has
a studio in Boston where he paints prominent Americans. Secretary Gray owned
the original Cox portrait; he privately commissioned the Lamb copy and placed
it in the Army gallery.